Cicero
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Cicero, a cognomen in reference to warts (cicer = chickpea). The Latinate form, based on the nominative, displaced Middle English Ciceroun, based on the oblique stem.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Cicero
Translations
Roman statesman and orator
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German
Etymology
From its use in publishing Pannartz and Sweynheim's 1468 edition of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares ("Letters to My Friends").
Noun
Cicero
- (uncountable, printing, dated) cicero, the 5th of the 7 traditional German sizes of type, between Korpus and Mittel, standardized as 12 point.
Latin
Etymology
From cicer (“chickpea”) + -ō (suffix forming cognomina), in reference to his warts.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈki.ke.roː/, [ˈkɪkɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.t͡ʃe.ro/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt͡ʃero]
Proper noun
Cicerō m sg (genitive Cicerōnis); third declension
- An agnomen held by Marcus Tullius Cicero, a great statesman and orator
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Cicerō |
Genitive | Cicerōnis |
Dative | Cicerōnī |
Accusative | Cicerōnem |
Ablative | Cicerōne |
Vocative | Cicerō |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: Ciceró
- English: Ciceronical
- French: Cicéron
- Greek: Κικέρων (Kikéron)
- Italian: Cicerone
References
- “Cicero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Cicero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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